I like this phrase. So often, we look to both virtue and vice as things that are DONE, and not as things not done.
But it is wrong to ignore wrongs when you have the power to act. More subtly, it is also cruel to fail to SEE people as they are; and also to fail to carry one’s one weight, thereby forcing it on another person, who may actually see carrying that weight as virtuous, when in fact it weakens both people, and detracts energy from actually useful tasks.
To be is to work. Sometimes “work” is doing nothing–but you can never really do nothing, outside of dreamless sleep. Me, I like the words “process”, and “experience”. To be still and aware is to act purposively.
And, to repeat, to fail to be aware is to be cruel, sooner or later, certainly.